Excerpt: The Iran war has disrupted a key raw material used in circuit boards, sending prices surging 40% in April alone and squeezing electronics manufacturers already battling rising chip costs.
A pulled review and fresh listings are stacking up, and all signs point to Valve’s new controller arriving very soon.
Turtle Beach’s Command Series MC7 turns the gaming mouse into a mini control center with a built-in touch display for DPI, macros, audio, apps, and streaming controls.
A YouTuber uploaded a video too early, and the Steam Controller’s $99.99 price slipped out. The video vanished fast, but not before the internet caught it.

Ford Racing’s new Mustang Cobra Jet 2200 just became the quickest electric car on the planet, running a 6.87-second quarter mile at 221 mph at the NHRA 4-Wide Nationals in Charlotte this weekend.
The run demolished Ford’s own previous EV record — a …

This week, we’ve been running a sidebar survey asking who Electrek readers think should be allowed to drive gas- and diesel-powered vehicles. After getting more than 2,000 submissions, here’s what you told us.
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X has launched XChat on iOS, a standalone messaging app aimed at expanding its ecosystem and competing with established chat platforms through privacy-focused features and social integration.
Running a celebrity fan page isn’t as easy as it looks. What looks like harmless fandom online often turns into a full-time, high-pressure commitment.
A new smart fabric powered by your phone has the potential to quietly replace wearable health trackers as we know them.

In late 2025, Google started rolling out new icons with a gradient design. Now it seems the new look is coming to the rest of Google’s apps. 9to5Google got its hands on images of the new icons that ditch the uniform circle design that tries to cram in every color of the Google logo. In […]